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How will Bill Gates spend his time now that he no longer works full-time at Microsoft? How will the company Gates co-founded change without him at the helm?

Guest: Ina Fried, CNET News.com

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People who buy Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles next year will have the option of turning their cars and trucks into rolling wireless Internet hotspots. Chrysler's UConnect will come as a dealer-installed option and will work over a cellular network.

The company says people will be able to use laptop computers in their cars and trucks just as if they were in an office or home.

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Later this summer, a new commercial satellite called the GeoEye-1 will make its way to Earth's orbit. The satellite will provide the clearest images yet -- objects as small as home plate on a baseball diamond will be visible. The government, in fact, will ban GeoEye from selling the higest resolution images to commercial customers because the detail could present national security problems.

The images will make for better pictures on the online map services of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

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A robotic spacecraft is the seventh most popular feed on social network Twitter, according to Twitterholic.

The person behind MarsPhoenix is Veronica McGregor from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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One in three computer network administrators who responded to a recent survey has used top-level administrative clearance to access confidential or sensitive information unrelated to their jobs - including salary details, company financial information, and personal e-mail.

Security software vendor Cyber Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals at a London security conference.

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General Motors has announced a five-year, $5 million plan to fund research at Carnegie Mellon University into driverless vehicles that would carry people to their destinations with greater safety and efficiency.

Executive director of GM research and development Alan Taub says the project will focus on developing a set of electronic control and software that will make driving a car more like riding in a taxi.

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A new paper in the Harvard Business Review says more than half of women who enter science, engineering and technology careers leave their professions. The paper, produced by the Center for Work Life Policy, says the female brain drain is a major constraint on economic growth.

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Computer historians have released what's believed to be the first recording of music generated by a computer. It's being made public as part of the 60th anniversary of "Baby," a forerunner of modern computers. A computer called the Ferranti Mark 1, a descendant of Baby, generated a few tunes, including God Save the Queen and Baa Baa Black Sheep.

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Is a rising tide of data about to overwhelm the Internet? Some industry groups, analysts and researchers argue that online video, social networks and multi-player games are leading us into a stop-and-go Internet traffic jam.

Andrew Odlyzko, a University of Minnesota professor who studies Internet traffic patterns, isn't buying such dire predictions.

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As Bill Gates prepares to retire from Microsoft later this month, PC World contributor Dan Tynan has collected a list of 10 memorable moments in the life of the world's second richest man. Tynan describes Gates as nerdy but ruthless - a strange hybrid of Napoleon Dynamite and Vlad the Impaler.

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Nearly half of all Americans are using the Internet to follow the presidential campaign, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Guest: Lee Rainie, Pew Internet

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In a new report, the nonprofit RAND corporation aims to dispel the notion that the U.S. is falling behind some Asian and European countries in science and technology. But it warns U.S. leadership could slip unless the government eases restrictions on importing talented scientists and engineers.

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On today's show, Julio Ojeda Zapata of the St Paul Pioneer Press reviews the Mino, the new version of the very popular, ultraportable Flip camcorder, and Polaroid's tiny, inkless photo printer.

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Instant message programs would seem to be rather intrusive, what with their insistent flashing, bouncing, and beeping, but a new study from Ohio State University and the University of California Irvine finds workers who use IM are interrupted less often than those who don't.

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Like many musicians, composer and jazz player David Chesky turns up his nose at the average MP3 or iTunes track. Songs on CD must be compressed to make for smaller files for downloading and listening on digital music players. Chesky says too much of the musical information disappears during such compression. So the founder of audiophile music label Chesky Records has begun selling higher-quality music on a new site, HDTracks.com.

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Barack Obama drew great strength from the Internet in defeating Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. Does that mean he's got a leg up on John McCain when it comes to raising money and organizing supporters online?

Guest: Andrew Reseij, TechPresident.com

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New iPhones, expected to be announced Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, will be faster and possibly cheaper.

Guest: Tom Krazit, CNET News.com

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Just five percent of consumer electronics products returned to stores are malfunctioning, according to a new study by technology consulting firm Accenture.

Consumers may report their MP3 players and Wi-Fi routers are broken, but Accenture's Terry Steger says 95 times out of a hundred, consumers return gadgets because of unmet expectations, complicated product design and plain-old buyers' remorse.

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"Firefox 3 is, hands down, the best browser I've ever used," according to Future Tense news analyst Dwight Silverman.

After years of development, Mozilla will releases the final version of the Firefox 3 browser later this month. You can download a stable release candidate version here.

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An unsigned rock band from Manchester, England didn't have the money to make a professional video for its new song, "Paper." But The Get Out Clause had an idea: why not use some of the 13 million surveillance cameras that keep a watchful eye on British citizens? So the band played to some 80 surveillance cameras in its home town, requested the footage under a freedom of information law, then used the clips to make a video.

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Hype over the second generation Apple iPhone will steadily rise leading to its rumored release later in June ... but just a few months later, we'll likely see new devices that could give Apple a run for its money. Those phones will run on Android, an open source mobile phone software package from Google. The search giant showed off the nearly-completed Android to several thousand programmers last week.

Guest: Vincent Nguyen, AndroidCommunity.com